Only the Party Members Returned, Not the Hero

12. A wizard who does not know how to handle mana (3)

12.

Nia Rishkarte.

An old man who is estimated to be over 100 years old, commonly known as the Archmage.

A lot of appearance is about late twenties.

Even though she doesn’t look like an old woman at all, the reason why she is called an old woman is because she is unremarkable to other people.

She also had no reason to come out of the hemp tower.

It was also because the legion of magic priests she raised could solve most of her problems, and she herself was not very greedy.

Is it beautiful? If you ask

I will replace it with an anecdote that the former emperor fell in love with her beauty and persistently courted her, but gave up after being unable to come out for about three days due to the magic of the iron wall.

“… ….”

“… ….”

I couldn’t answer Nia Rishi Karte’s question about what kind of relationship she had with Elish. When Nia’s mood changed unexpectedly, Elish asked for a moment to talk and she sagged while holding Nia’s ankles.

So now, in the isolated room, Elish and I are sitting quietly facing each other.

Even though Elish tried to talk to me about something, she must have read the scolding and contempt in my eyes. She kept her mouth shut several times.

It seems that he has become sullen as he continues to face his cold eyes.

I could see her gradually losing her temper.

“…”

That’s it.

I wondered if it was the Elish I knew.

Elish Charlotte.

She entered the school of the brave, and from the beginning she stood between her students and the professor. She

She obviously entered as a student, but her ability to perform magic was superior to that of any professor.

If you have to argue, you could say that she is similar to Saint EL, who came in with a letter of recommendation from the pope and was selected as a student and catechist.

“Elish Charlotte.”

I called her name.

Ugh, yes. She answered in stutters, still failing to make eye contact with hers.

“What the hell happened between us?”

***

What the hell happened between us?

A low voice echoes through the isolated room, then disappears.

Elish liked his thick voice.

She liked his face, with his deep-set eyes and manly features, and the large hands that could hold her own forearm in one. Perhaps, she also liked his tone, which seemed somewhat sharp and rebellious.

Even though the hero Ellen was from a commoner, other than that, he was a man who somehow fit the qualities of a hero.

But Elish hated him.

He couldn’t help but hate it.

I wonder if that was jealousy.

The reason why I had to be so jealous of him was,

Because Elish was a half-mage who couldn’t feel mana.

No matter how much I struggled and tried, I couldn’t cross the limits of being born as a ‘non-responder’.

Only Elish and her teacher, Nia Rishkarte, knew this fact.

So, Elish became even more obsessed with ‘magical magic’.

It was an ideal she would never have.

A wizard who cannot feel mana memorizes magic only as a formula.

The magic learned in this way is virtually no different from engineering.

If she couldn’t move mana directly by touching it, she had to dig a path through which mana could flow to reach the desired destination.

Elish was the one who engraved thousands of those waterways in his head and watched them flow.

Although that could be said to be a truly wonderful talent.

When she saw Ellen flowing freely with her mana, she couldn’t help but be jealous.

So Elish bullied Ellen.

Deliberately destroying her assignments, who had an innate mana sensitivity, gave her a sense of humiliation if she was even a little late for her class, and gave her a failing grade while catching her faults.

I couldn’t count how many words hurt me.

Even when she said she had to go because of an urgent matter, she kept it at school, saying that she was failing.

Pride… Was it because

“… ….”

Elish wanted to tell everything about her to Ellen.

She didn’t know why until now, she didn’t know how Ellen had forgiven me, she wanted to beg him for her mercy and love.

But I can’t.

She couldn’t show him a second time that she would just throw her feelings away and tell him to take care of it.

Because she already hurt him so much.

“Ellen.”

It is said that people do not know the future.

However, there are things you cannot change even if you know the future.

If only Ellen knew that she would be her everything.

If only I knew.

I wouldn’t have.

Regret is always late.

***

After asking several times, Elish’s face became visibly depressed.

I felt a strange feeling.

It’s frustrating and frustrating seeing Elish’s face looking at me with affectionate eyes while sharing memories from somewhere in the future that I don’t even know about.

Also, I was curious about what had to happen to get me that close to Elish, and even though we were able to get along well, I wondered why I was like that until now.

I wasn’t in a good mood.

“… Ha.”

Look at that. I sighed once, but I’m looking at my eyes hard again.

“Okay, I won’t ask what happened. From now on, I will ask only the things I absolutely need to know, so please answer as much as you can.”

“Yes, I understand.”

After saying that in a solemn tone, Elish met her eyes with a resolute expression.

“Are you having my child by any chance?”

“Uh… uh? Uhh… ?”

It started to fall apart in a mess again soon after.

“Uh, uh uh…. I am? Me?”

“No, Elish, wake up.”

“Ah, ah, no, no? Isn’t it?”

“Hey, hey. Some mind….”

I was able to hear the whole story from Elish after a long time.

Fortunately, they said they didn’t have children or had s*x.

Just before her return, Elish explained her magic problem, and I, who was worried about her, made a direct contract with Elish.

A contract that allows you to freely handle the mana internalized in the hero’s body.

He said that it was a contract that even mages who were married couples wouldn’t do well because they could take away the other person’s magic at will.

With the additional explanation that he only saw how to do it in books, it was hard to find examples.

“Ellen.”

“Yes.”

“Have you ever thought about how daunting and beautiful the world would look if a blind person could see it?”

Elish said so.

After making a contract with Ellen, for three days, Ellen slowly distributed Ellen’s mana to Elish’s body, and for another three days, whenever Elish used her magic, she shed tears without realizing it. Did it

“Since Ellen’s mana flows through my body, it is natural for Master to misunderstand.”

“Then why is this part necessary?”

“Well, I was afraid that Master would suspect something else related to the pocket watch if I spread it all over my body, so I suppressed it as much as possible….”

“Are you going that way if you suppress it?”

Elish covered her belly with both hands as if holding something precious.

“Women usually carry valuables around this time.”

“… ….”

Okay, so please stop posing like that.

You think I’ve become a bad person for no reason.

***

Elish went in front of Nia and began to explain her whole story.

Leaving aside her details about her return, Nia nodded her head as her hero spread her mana all over her body, saying that she had lent her mana to him. And showed understanding.

“That’s how it happened. Well, since you’re a hero, you might be tempted to snap a contract like that.”

“Yeah, but I thought about it as much as I could.”

“Anyway, it’s not a light contract. You should have asked me about that first. At least write a letter.”

Master’s bruises.

I secretly let out a sigh of relief as I looked at Elish, who was getting a little sullen again.

“Sorry for misunderstanding, hero? I really thought my son-in-law came, but after hearing the story, it wasn’t like that.”

“It’s okay, Archmage. I’m glad the misunderstanding has been cleared up.”

“Yes, but call me Nia.”

“…… ?”

I looked at her with her look on her face again, why?

“Since a direct contract itself is a permanent and close contract that can only be made between husband and wife and cannot be canceled unless they die, isn’t it actually an engagement? So, wouldn’t it be okay to call Ellen son-in-law from now on? Or, half son-in-law?”

Suddenly becoming a half-brother-in-law, I looked at Elish with an expression asking if this was right, and Elish lowered her head as she had no face with her.

“Just kidding, kidding. Instead, go to bed today.”

“Well, I have a schedule for the next one….”

“You still have some time to get your permit, right? So go to sleep today Didn’t I say it twice?”

Niarish Karte said that with a smile on her single single, then snapped her fingers and warped away.

The only thing in front of us is the warp to the bedroom.

There was no way out.